1. In 1943 the engineer Thomas Flowers built a computing machine at Bletchley Park. What was it specifically designed to do?

2. Which two Hollywood icons played together in the 1943 film version of Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls"?

3. Which 1943 novel from Antoine de Saint-Exupery is one of the best selling books in history?

4. Eric Claudin is the disfigured genius in which classic 1943 film?

5. Which US territory became a state in 1907 and was the subject of a 1943 musical?

6. Which Axis Power changed sides during WW II, declaring war on Germany in 1943?

7. What was the highest value Britist banknote in legal circulation? (Hint: it was withdrawn in 1943)

8. True or False: no Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded from 1939 through 1943?

9. What was the name of the popular British film production company run by the director duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger between 1943 and 1957?

10. Born 19 January, 1943 in Ottawa, this princess is the only European royal ever born in North America. Which royal family does she belong to?

11. The amphibious and airborne German plan to invade Britain in 1940 was known as Operation what?

12. Which country appeared in a record 23 consecutive Davis Cup finals between 1946 and 1968?

13. Who played the male lead in the 1941 comedy film Ball Of Fire?

14. World War Two ended September 2 1945 when the Japanese surrendered on board which US battle ship?

15. Which 1940 film starred Charlie Chaplin as despot Adenoid Hynkel?

16. In what year did the attack on Pearl Harbour take place?

17. Who was the Austrian-American film director who directed Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960)?

18. In which decade was Dolly Parton born?

19. Which Japanese island was captured by the US in 1945 and returned in 1968?

20. The last person to be jailed in Britain under the Witchcraft Act was Helen Duncan. Plus or minus 40 years, when did this occur?

ANSWERS

1. Crack codes used by the German military

2. Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman

3. The Little Prince

4. The Phantom of the Opera

5. Oklahoma

6. Italy

7. ?1,000 notes

8. True

9. The Archers

10. The Dutch Royal Family, Orange-Nassau. (HRH Princess Margriet)

11. Operation Sea Lion

12. Australia

13. Gary Cooper

14. USS Missouri

15. The Great Dictator

16. 1941

17. Billy Wilder

18. 1940s

19. Iwo Jima

20. 1944 (M.I. thought she might reveal D Day secrets)